Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-09
Promotion Ok tho OniciaI-A TghoI--
sale systcm of Forgery.
RECEIVED BY TIE PRESIDENT.

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! addressed the visitors as follows: 81
can only say to you, gentlemen, that
am glad TO meet you here. ! have eX-
| tended to you this courtesy Is l have
! lately with much pleasure to other posts
/ Of The Grand Army Of the Republic on
! their way home from visits TO their
| southern friends l want you TO
understand that Esve lost no confidence
/ il the Grand Army Cf the Republic as sn
! organization, Notwithstanding the recent
occurrence, To which il is NOT necessary
20 further allude. 1t is iucomprahensi5le
/ 20 me- that men who have risECd their
/ lives 20 save the government should abate
one iCt or tittla Of respect and support
which every good citizen owes TO the
government and the constituted au-
th0rities. greet you then as citizens as
well S. veterans, and I shall D. pleased
to take You al ly the hand.
SENSATION II THE TREASURY DEPART
lJENlT.
WAsHEGToN, July s.-S1mething Of c
sensation YVES created in the Treasury
Department this afternoon by The Gisc1v-
cry that 4 trusted Official Ia the depart
ment has been guilty Of g systematic at
tempt TO delr8ud the government. The
officer was arrested ct WIkesbarre yes
terday evening as he was about to tsEe
TIE yralE for Washington, sud MS dis
MisS3i from service was ordered by Sec
retsry FairchId this afternoon. HIS
name is Oscar J. Harvey. lie has been
employed in TIE department since June,
1881, when ne was appointed chief Of the
horse claims division OF the Third Audi
tors Office II was while he held this
position that he perpetrGted the frauds
with which he is nOw charged. GA the
- of Jane last he was transferred to the
head Of g division in the Second Comp
troiler's Office, & division which has
charge Of claims Of the same nature as
those in the division which he had Just
left. Austin II. Brown OF Indianapolis
succeeded Harvey as chief of the horse
Of claims division, sud soon after ne took
charge of the Office he discovered frauds
OF which his predecessor had been guilty.
They consisted Of the passage of forty
three fraudulent claims for horses, ag-
gregating 5000, and The preparation Of
many Rdditl&onl cases OF g similar nature
which we-e undo consideration in the
Office. Son ar Nj. Blown took charge
ne discovered S-ms., - vas wroIg aud
reported the mater u the Secretary, and
the frauds have been run down. In most
cases tee claims arose for horses
lost during the late war, sud are
presented IN the names Of Cheers of
Pennsylvania and New jersey regiments. /
All Of the cases appeared TO nEye been
prosecuted by "W. W. wynn, " first oil
Philadelphia and then Of Washington. /
and the services of 81 .C.Msniord, "n0sary
public OF Philadelphia, were called into
requisition in connection with the neces- /
sEry aHi5avita, The work involved g F.
very large number Of iorgeries, Official I.
and otherwise, and the stealing q nu- /
meToUs lncrimiuCtj1g papers from the I
files o. The department. For instance, in (
Is3 GiGius it was found tina. signatures I
involving tie names Of tGjrtv-eight /
officers were f0rgeTes. SU5Sequeulg it'll
was found that the Second AUDITORS .
name had been forged In certificates re
ceIVed from inst Cli5e, ard slso that /
none Of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey
cases II which Mr.. Wynn was attorney
were entered on the records Of that Office.
The claims which had been allowed were
then oyerhauled, and in almost every in.
stance it was found tlat the second aud
TORS certificate SIS to signature aad been
bs raCted together with otter pa
pc s. The stamp Of the mail-room of tue
-hird auditors Office aud the stamp of the
horse claims division had been forged
and the dates arranged 50 as
% bring them within the limita-
ion fixed for settling these claims.
The stamp OF the Quartermas.er-
Generals Office was also forged The
traits were regularly issued and an eZ-
animation Of such as have been returned
IS paid shows that Harvey and WYNN
ire one and the same persons, and that
although the drafts were drawn in favor
# the claimants the money with one or
wo exceptions went directly to Harvey
II to some of his relations. He had
ecured their payment by forging the sig
lsture Of the payee and then indorsing
he draft with mis- own name. 'MRuford,
he Philadelphia notary, like Wynn, the
ttorney, was found TO be 3 myth Most
4 the nOtaTies snd persons named il the
laims are unknown TO the Department
I addition TO the forty three
asses passed there have been $50
imilaC cases adjusted, aggregating $780,
90, and there are still pending, unad-
listed, sixty eight cases, amounting 10
80, 500, making total OF lGI fraudulent ,
ases which might have eventually been
aid but for the discovery. Harvey left
Washington about the lst inst. OF 2 short :
acation. As already stated, he was az
ested as he was about TO return. He
vas brought to this city 5y officers Of
he secret service, who have Kept him
nder surveillance since he WAS first sus-
'ected. He asked TO see the Secretary, :
nd VIXEN be was Informed Of the eYi- :